NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 97% higher texture fill rate: 2.56 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 550 MHz
8.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 110 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 January 2005 vs 6 March 2003
Texture fill rate	2.56 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	110 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 168 vs 166

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	168 vs 166

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

168

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark	110	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	166	168

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV41	NV31 A1
Launch date	16 January 2005	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1013	1023
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2.56 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	222 million	80 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		37 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR